These are a few of my favorite quotes. You'll find others scattered here and there, though, when I thought them appropriate.
"War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it." (Desiderius Erasmus)
"In politics, stupidity is not a handicap." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"Any nation that does not learn from its history is doomed to repeat it." (Unknown)
“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. (Benjamin Franklin)
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilence." (Thomas Jefferson)
"Freedom is a package deal...it comes with responsibilities and consequences." (Unknown)
"Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, the political character must soon follow." (Elias Boudinot)
"To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target." (Ashleigh Brilliant)
"In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power, but carries the ultimate responsibility." (Norman Cousins)
"Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein)
"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brain." (Sir Winston Churchill)
"The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others." (Ayn Rand)
"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: 'If it moves, tax it.'; 'If it keeps moving, regulate it.'; and 'If it stops moving, subsidize it.' " (Ronald Reagan)
"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society." (Theodore Roosevelt)
"There is no crueler tyranny that that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice." (Montesquieu, 1742)
"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal: well meaning, but without understanding." (Justice Louis D. Brandeis, dissenting opinion Olmstead v. U.S.)
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